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I wouldn't mind a little more Alcala/Mark Taylor prototype in there, but the inclusion of the ledge and the 'chess piece' do make this design very desireable. It's a good hybrid between the original toy and the proto. I do think that Erick is going to have his own take and the shape of the skull and teeth will likely be a bit different from the drawing.

Sorry Mattel. I was willing to pre-order this awesome castle. But though I expected high shipping costs, I did not expect them to nearly double the price! Forced to pass now and deeply depressed because of it.

Pre-ordered mine!!
But Mattel is seriously dropping the ball here... a lot of casual collectors will be interested in this,
but with those crappy tiny pictures, they are not doing themselves any favors...

Yeah, I just did a "mock order". International shipping to the UK is just under $200. Added together it would be about $450, which would be about £280. I really have to think about this. I suspect that a lot of international costumers are going to pass on this one, which is a shame, because everyone is needed to make sure the pre-order goes through. Mattel could have problems here.

So $198 shipping to the uk,thought about it and decided that i could probs just push to it and then wham Card validation failed and yet i use it for ebay all the time and there's still a year left on it.